The Too Busy To Eat Show

Dr. Thomas Cowan is a holistic doctor, an author of multiple books including How and Why to Eat More Vegetables, the founder of Dr. Cowan’s Garden, and his medical practice Fourfold Healing. He currently lives in San Francisco where he sees patients at Fourfold Healing. How did you get here…2:13 - Dr. Cowan grew up with the idea of feeling like he had to be a doctor, even though he wasn’t really interested. Being in the peace corps for two years led him to discover that he wanted to be a holistic doctor. One who does not prescribe drugs but rather, proper foods. How and Why to Eat More Vegetables…5:10 - In his book, Dr. Cowan looks at the most important decision to make about health: do we think the way we live and the medicine we take make us the healthiest we can be? - 3 food groups: food from animals, foods from seeds, vegetables/fruit. - The typical native diet averaged 10-15 veggies per day out of 120 different kinds. Today we only get about 8 veggies (ketchup, fries, lack of variety) out of a much small